Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I mb-height 6853 Bermondsey

Bermondsey

Monument in the churchyard of St Giles in the Fields

26th April 1941

falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar which rests on the word 'Adultery'

it is small use fitting him with wings'

Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I mb-height 6853 BermondseyTrench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I, 1917 1918. The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences built on the Western Front by the Germans in the winter of 1916 1917. It extended from Lens in the north to beyond Verdun and was believed by the German High Command to be impregnable. In fact British and Newfoundland forces using tanks briefly broke through the line at Cambrai in 1917, and it was breached in several